Tuesday 24 May 2016

12 Monkeys - 'One Hundred Years'

Time travel: It's about hats.
Following the clues from the hotel, Cole persuades Jones and the increasingly creepy father-daughter survivalist team of Deacon and Cassie that the next step has to be back to 1944, in pursuit of the Messengers.

While Deacon pushes for Ramse's execution, Cassie and Cole are splintered back, with Cole arriving two months earlier than Cassie. He is clearly loving the period, while nuCassie is all about the mission, which involves tracking a pair of Messengers - a man and a woman - who are going after a man named Thomas Crawford, although Terminator-style, their first attempt hits the wrong Thomas Crawford.

What is the deal with the face? Presumably it's an image that haunts the
Primaries through their weird temporal sensitivity. Maybe someone is going to
throw a baboon into the time machine.
The right Thomas Crawford is a mental patient, daubing the Monkey emblem on the walls of his cell. He is a Primary, like Jennifer, and he knows that the Messengers are coming for him. Played by Continuum's Erik Knudsen, he is kind of adorable, and like Jennifer he is resigned to the predestination of his doom. Unlike Jennifer, he doesn't have a Cole to talk him off the ledge. Cassie's impersonal insistence on protecting him does not persuade him and he gives himself up to the Messengers in part to save Cassie and Cole.

Crawford is ritually murdered using a piece of his own future skeleton, invoking a paradox which sends devastating ripples into the fracturing timeline. As anomalies tear open - fortuitously interrupting Ramse's execution - the forests turn red, and the world is one step closer to the Army's vision.

Also, Dr Ecklund is rocking out in the time machine room and giving Jones the Tormund eye. So cute.

'One Hundred Years' brings snappy suits, while spiraling our heroes further and further down the rabbit hole. Cassie continues to bridle against the new, softer side of Cole, but it is increasingly apparent that it is Cole who is - ironically as a result of Cassie's influence - coming to understand the big picture.

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